- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
See Quotes
How we look at things, and ourselves.
Quotes gathered under "see" lean heavily on film and perception — directors discussing age ratings and who gets to watch a movie, plus candid remarks about self-image and confidence. For related thoughts on preference and comparison, Like quotes make a fitting companion.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no alternative, regarded it as a legacy that had to be built on rather than rejected.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a decade, I had been studying a transparent worm, the C. elegans. I immediately thought, if you could put the G.F.P. gene into C. elegans, you'd then be able to see biological processes in live animals. Until then, we had to kill them and prepare their tissues chemically to visualize proteins or active genes within cells.
- Observation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a toddler, we lived in Maryland and my mom would routinely pile us in the car to go see events unfolding in Washington, D.C. such as the return of Apollo astronauts, parading through the streets of D.C. on open back convertibles while we all waved pennants.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see unreasoning fear driving a certain amount of public policy, perhaps more in Europe than in the U.S.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020